Greg Stein wrote: > > > I hate to chime in here, but I must agree. Things have certainly > > come a long way when the build/configure system tried to > > be as LCD (lowest common denominator) as possible. > > And it was a recursive make solution which we're trying to fix. If you can > come up with an LCD approach which has a single top-level Makefile, then > please feel free. > > > If we require all this "extra" stuff, then, at least to my > > mind, it means that we need to rethink not just patch. > > Oh, come on. For somebody building straight from CVS, to add a Python > dependence? Okay, so it caught a few people unawares. We make changes like > that all the time. But this one is not hard to solve. > > In any case, this whole notion of "rewrite as a shell script" just isn't > going to fly. >
:) No, I have no solutions, nor did I mean to imply that: o Such a solution is trivial o That the solution used was done with no thought of impact to developers. -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both and deserve neither" - T.Jefferson